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Coffee Antioxidant - Friend or Foe
Before we get all excited over the recent news about coffee being our new antioxidant, we need to take a look at the “entire” picture. Is there truly a coffee antioxidant? If there is, how exactly is coffee an antioxidant? Does it become the...

Coffee Breaks - Do they create Stress?
The American custom of taking break during the working hours. Thus coffee breaks began in the early 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, the American workplace was a dreadful place for a break. But as the century turned, social reform was...

Coffee Makers
If you are a gourmet coffee drinker, you may want to opt for the convenience of your own coffee maker . After all, who wants to get up early and run out to buy a cup of fresh coffee each and every morning? It is so much more enjoyable to sit and...

Gourmet-Tasting Coffee without the Gourmet Price Tag
Quality in, quality out. The formula seems elementary but, in the minds of many coffee drinkers, quality is synonymous with higher costs. Coffee lovers are seemingly faced with a trade off between the gourmet taste they crave and the money in...

Great speciality coffee
If you are looking for specialty coffee that is smooth with a fruity, nutty taste, or even a smoky heaviness then you can find what you need. A nice specialty coffee blends to compliment our regular roasts. You will want to try French Mocha,...

Guide To Bunn Coffee Makers
Are you one of those people who can't get moving in the morning without that morning cup of coffee? If you are, you aren't alone. Homes across the country are home to Bunn coffee makers, espresso or cappuccino makers to get people up and ready to...

History of Spanish Coffee
When we think of Spanish coffee we tend to think of a steaming mug of coffee with rum or other alcohol and topped with whipped cream, but the Spanish influence on the coffee industry reaches much further than the bar in a ski lodge. Spanish ships...

Make Money In Your Own Coffee Business
A 2001 survey by the National Coffee Association indicated that over 100 million people drink coffee on a daily basis and that nearly 60 million more occasionally consume coffee. Based on average drinking habits, the daily coffee drinker will...

Starbucks Coffee History
To summarize something as phenomenonally successful as Starbucks coffee history might be a challenge. Many volumes have been written on the subject, it is examined and taught in business schools, and whole semesters are dedicated to the marketing...

SWAPPING COFFEE FOR LOTTERY TICKETS
Every morning, when at the barbershop, I walk across the street to the convenience store. I come back with three items – J.B.’s coffee, my coffee and my banana. One morning, as I was waiting in line at the register, the cashier scanned the...

 
 
 
Coffee & Alzheimers disease?

Alzheimers disease is a condition that affects the neurological health of the afflicted patient. Several studies with coffee have been done recently to determine whether there is a valid link between drinking coffee and reduction in the risk of Alzheimers disease. In mid-2002, the Dementia Clinics at the Hospital of Santa Maria and Laboratory of Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal, investigated to see if there was a link between drinking coffee and the reduction of the risk of developing Alzheimers disease.

In particular, the researchers sought to determine if the caffeine in coffee could protect against the degeneration of the brain that is associated with Alzheimers disease in the period before diagnosis.

They studied fifty-four patients with probable Alzheimers disease. All of the patients met the National Institute of Neurologic and Communicative Disorders and Store and the Alzheimers disease and Related Disorders Association criteria.

The researchers found that the caffeine in coffee was associated with a

 


significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer+IBk-s disease, even when other issues were taken into account.

The Klinik und Poliklinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie at the Universitatsklinikum Benjamin Franklin at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), looked at the relationship between consumption of coffee and the delay in the onset of Alzheimers disease or reduction in the rate of progression of the disease. While they were unable to definitively state that the caffeine in coffee was beneficial to patients with Alzheimers disease, they did see the possibility of the link between coffee and overall neurological health.

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